Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-12
Straps and facts.

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look the lead in employing ladies as legis-
Iative clerks. Now Alabama, Arkansas and
Tennessee observe the same rule.
r A. A. Ames, late Democratic candidate
Hbr Governor of Minnesota, appeared before
Judge Carril, of the municipal court OF st.
Paul, on Thursday, and took the oath OF Of
iee as Governor. 1t is understood that this
Proceeding is preliminary to contesting the
teat of Governor-elect McGill, who was in
Dncted into Office on the same day.
The wheat crop of Melbourne, Austria
ka, threatens to be q failure. A Melbourne
Circular gives the estimated yield as from
'hirty-five to forty bushels on irrigated
ands and four bushels'to the acre on dry
lands. The greatest trouble appears to be
The lack Of the irrigating facilities, the un-
certainty Of the rainfall in Australia being
jhe great drawback of the farmer.
= Five colored Baptist missionaries, Rev.
j. Coles and Mrs. Coles. Of Richmond, !,
Va. !, Rev. e. B.. Topp and Mrs. Topp, of
jackson, Miss, and Rev. j. j. Diggs, OF
Bhipland, Miss, sailed from New York,
|ast week, for Africa on the bark Gardtneus.
ehey were sent by the Southern colored
Baptist foreign mission conference, and their
Pork will be among the negroes OF West
Ceutral Africa.
The business failures occurring through
ut the country during the week ending
Ast Friday, as reported to r. G. Dun &Go. !,
Number for the United States I'll and for
canada o.; total 299 against 273 the, week
trevious. The increase noticed in the num-
Ter Of casualties arein the South, the failures
here being exceptionally numerous, though
lot important. Assignments IN New YORK
|ity are few and of little consequence.
prominent life insurance man in
Hartford, Conn.,, says that his experience
dd the records of life insurance have
hOwn him that young men of twenty
Hfs of age who abstain entirely from all
Hnds of intoxicating drinks, have good!
be while the moderate drinker, at twenty
Fears of age, can only expect to live to be
|hirty-five and one-half years old.
The mileage of railroads built in 1856
nore than 5000 miles-is evidence of the
hpidity with which railroad construction
las been carried on in the United States.
This Is about one thousand miles more than
What was first supposed would be the linn
! short time ago. We are laying track
nuch faster than In previous eras of rail-
ray EXPANSION. because of the greater ia
ftfties greater knowledge and greater ex-
The Chicago Tribune, in reviewing the
business OF 1883, takes hopeful view of the
nture. The Tribune calls attention to the
bet that during the year which has just
losed the Improvement has been so grad
al that there are many people left who
)eny that there has been any improve
bent. But the statistics of manufacture
Ind distribution that have recently been
kublished are unmistakable in their signifi-
hnce. There has been a steady gain in
Fade and profits for six or eight months.
A Baltimore dispatch of the.4th says:
William III. Richardson, proprietor OF the
Peoples Noice, newspaper published at
coWnson, Baltimore county, was convicted
pme time since of having published GRIM
hal libel on Judge Fowler, one of the Cir
hit Judges. The, case was taken to the
;ourt of Appeals and the verdict affirmed:
70 day Judge Waters, the Associate OF
Judge Fowler, sentenced Richardson to two
Fears imprisonment and imposed upon
Im nue. oS $500. -,
Among Il petitions and memorials
Presented in the Senate on Thursday, were
lutte number praying for ran approprid-
lon, and in some cases asang che dedRite
nm Of 500, 900 to enable iolored citizens to
migrate to Liberia. These petitions coit3e
kom colored citizens Of Lancaster county,
c., the Rev. A. A. Lewis Of Florida,
Olored citizens of Whitfelds Ga,
Buncombe county, North Carolina, Gray
on and other counties in Texas, Manhat-
hn, Kansas, and one general petition OF
itizens of African descent.
-The most narrowing story of the recent
bid wave comes from Rockaway Beach,
III. Five men in two row boats started
b cross Jamaica bay. The tide ran out
hrrying quantities of drift ice which soon
nfrOunded the men and made their further
rogress in any direction impossible. They
Fere in plain view from the, beach but no
eip could reach them through the break
rs and tossing masses Of ice, and at last
|ccpUnts they were expected to die OF the
ense cold and exhaustion within mile
Hland, in broad day light and before the
yes Of hundreds of helpless people.
= About year ago George Hamilton, a
eside1t of Welisville, Pa, fell on the icy
avement in front of one of the churches
nd brSke his leg. He Immediately insti-
bted proceedings against the corporation,
laimi4g S., 900 damages, and was award
a S7OS-Gn the jury which tried the case
kas~a Hnan from Salem, who persistently
6ught the award, and finally succeeded in
avingi reduced to $500. The headstrong
lror returned to his home few days ago,
hid, while walking along one of Salem's
h0rOughfares, fell and broke a leg also. He
6tends suing the town for damages, and
he question naturally arises, will he be
bntent with $500 for his own leg? 1t is
robable that when the case comes to trial
Is action in the former suit may influence
be- jury.
e Among the callers on the President last
Thursday morning was q young man who
,as recently pardoned from the penitentia-
y by the President The young man had
fayeled long distance to thank the Presi-
ent in person. On sending in his card the
resideft at once recognized the name and
kked a ht the young man be called in. Ac.
eingt 10 the Star, the President received
~ "a cordial shake of the hand, and
ss,ss9 Vile the young man thanked him
s$t $ttorfnG Nm 10 liberty and to his fami
~. lHe fresioAQt made some inquiries
ILL., H. tns PRISON, asa for some moments
aeG " 4iin IN fathtrly manner, telling
~ !nat tfSfe was plenty of room in\the
nEq for hifp to become a useful citizen
!u fdvised hlm to 60 to work andruakSo
a9 OF himself and he should watcSS- b;s
kpfse with interest. ~ ""'c'i MS
1t is alleged hata combination hoo hoon
meo among Southern Democratic Con- Con-
fssmen which is known among thensseI,,as Ivn
she Houthsrn Revehue Reform G9rea 70
r,aos;n ~, Wnicn 9ates It's formal existence from
fa.eetlng e OF the congressman of Viro;nia'
|esfAa Carolina, South Carolina and eG!n1a' Gnaa'
early in Defender, of which M Wr
OF Virginia, Was NJ Cbairman
Ct is said to be to & 1He ahoIi
the internal revep aS91ii - !
Ind all its manufa1
andifs. This W. ,
the revenue Of